local content in a Europeana cloud

Czech digital collections from the archeology and architecture domain in Europeana

Irena Blažková Národní památkový ústav

Digital Heritage, Granada, Spain, 1.10.2015

LoCloud is funded by the European Commission's ICT Policy Support Programme

(National Heritage Institute) is statutory national institution founded by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic in order to take care of cultural monuments, immovable and movable.

Národní památkový ústav

• has a central office and regional branches in 14 regions (districts), including Prague

• EU projects: CARARE and LoCloud

Metainformation System (digital

documents)MIS

Geographical Information

SystemGIS

Central List of Cultural

MonumentsMonumIS

adaptor adaptor adaptor

OAI PMH Provider

public portal www.npu.cz

CARAREOAI PMH harvester

MINT + MORE

metadata

content

links

NPU information system

Europeanaportal

public users

• on-line presentation of the Central List of Cultural Monuments of the Czech Republic, movable and immovable assets, protected areas

• presently under development• main changes: not only the listed monuments, but all

historically valuable assets; compatible with other systems

• new application „Heritage Cataloque“ will be launched in December 2015

NPU: MonumIS

• storage of all geographic information created by specialist of NPU

• online, live database • http://gis.npu.cz/• crowdsourcing within

institution

NPU: GIS

• storage of all digital documents created by specialists of NPU

• online, live database http://iispp.npu.cz/mis_public/homepage.htm

•crowdsourcing within institution

•more than 400 000 items, more than 250 000 items public available

(not public domain)

NPU: Metainformation System - MIS

• National Heritage Institute provided to Europeana 6806 items

• we had about 100 000 public documents then• why so few items were provided ? – missing descriptions of heritage assets (they were in

many local databases) – many documents were connected to parts of sites and

to unprotected buildings and also don´t have requested fields in the old database MonumIS

CARARE project

• during the LoCloud project our CARARE dataset was updated to about 125 000 items

using a trick: photographs and other documents are considered to be heritage assets, so the originally

missing descriptions and other fields don´t matter

• provided a new dataset – VAL - Significant archeological sites

- about 6 000 items

LoCloud

Nechvalín, Miroslav Bálek, 1998

eCultureMap

orange points– spatial accuracy 5m or lesspurple points – lower accuracy

serching Europeana content from several projects as Athena, CARARE, LinkedHeritage, AthenaPlus, 3DIcons and others and its geographical locationwww.eculturemap.eu

Searching content in eCultureMap

11 results

video from the Czech

Television

video from the Czech

Television

latin book from the Austrian

National Library, 1689

glas photograph from the

Austrian National Library, 1780

photographs from the National Heritage Institute

Searching content in Europeana

13 results

2 documents don´t have geographical coverage

We are plannig to provide • collection of vernacular architecture from a small

institution SOVAMM • update of the CARARE dataset• update of the archelogical dataset

Plans

Telecí 46, Zuzana Syrová, 1986

Thank you for your attention.

contact: blazkova.irena@npu.czOther information: http://www.locloud.eu/

http://www.npu.cz/locloud/

LoCloud is funded by the European Commission's ICT Policy Support Programme

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authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission.